Just a query around VM hardening, as per VMware guidelines given below, when a VMX is hardened with few additional parameters it does NOT come into effect unless the VM is powered OFF and ON, but in my environment it just comes into effect immediately and also when i run get-vmadvancedconfiguration it reports all hardened parameters right after hardening. one of the parameter is limit remote console to 1, and immediately after VM is hardened this comes into effect without any poweroff / on or vMotion. My question is how does it come into effect when VM is still powered on and VMX should be read only when powered on. (ESXi 5.5 U2 release 9/9/14, tested on vmx versions 4, 7,8)